.wtf is a
generic top-level domain
Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. A top-level domain is the last level of eve ...
(gTLD) run by
Donuts
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, a gTLD
registry Registry may refer to:
Computing
* Container registry, an operating-system-level virtualization registry
* Domain name registry, a database of top-level internet domain names
* Local Internet registry
* Metadata registry, information system for re ...
.
It is derived from "
WTF",
an online acronym for "what the fuck?".
In June 2012,
Ryan Singel
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of
''Wired'' predicted no one would ever set up the .wtf domain,
but later that month an application for the domain was submitted to
ICANN,
and although in August 2012 the
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
n government objected to .wtf and 30 other newly proposed
top-level domain
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s such as .gay, .bible and .islam,
ICANN approved .wtf on 23 April 2014.
Google indexed about 4,350,000 webpages with the .wtf domain.
References
External links
''Whois'' information for .wtf(
IANA)
Source from ICANNWIKI
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Generic top-level domains